Everything you can do with AbsoluteLayout can be done with FrameLayout and RelativeLayout. AbsoluteLayout was deprecated because its use encourage applications that will NOT work with devices with different screen dimensions/resolutions. As such we decided to deprecate AbsoluteLayout to encourage developers to do the right thing and use layouts that will work much better with other screen dimensions/resolutions.
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:19 PM, nEx.Software <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd like to know the reasoning behind the deprecation of this layout. > I suppose you could maybe pull the code from 1.1 and keep using it, I > don't see the FrameLayout or RelativeLayout being viable alternatives > despite being recommended in the docs. > > On Apr 29, 1:12 pm, karthikr <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have just realised that AbsoluteLayout has been deprecated in the >> latest sdk, however I have designed my apps based on AbsoluteLayout >> and it is very difficult for me to remove them and change it to a >> different layout. Can someone help me as to how I should proceed? >> Absolute layout was really helpful in positioning the elements to be >> accurate. One could always had different layout definitions for >> different screen sizes, and based on the current width and height the >> required layout can be set. Removing of AbsoluteLayout is creating a >> lot of frustration to me as I have already designed most of the >> things >> using it. Somebody please help me out. >> >> Regards, >> R.Karthik > > > -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
